Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937. Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera was an original Mexican land grant. "Paso de la Tijera" or "Pass of the Scissors" described the pass through the Baldwin Hills. The Sanchez Adobe of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera, was once the center of the rancho. In 1927 the adobe, which featured intact exterior walls but required a new roof, was converted into a clubhouse for the Sunset Field Golf Club (also known as the Sunset Fields Public Golf Drive). Saint Bernadette's Parish occupied the adobe from 1947 until 1959 when the Parkview Women's Club bought the property. From 1972 until 1990 the building, located at 3725 Don Felipe Drive in Baldwin Hills, sat empty under the ownership of the Consolidated Realty Board of Southern California. The structure was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #487 in 1990 when it was threatened with demolition. This view of the Sunset Field Golf Club Sanchez Adobe turned clubhouse shows the porch and deck chairs set along the original adobe walls. The beautiful grounds are seen on the right.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Sunset Field Golf Club (Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.) Adobe houses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles) Ranch houses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles) Clubhouses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles) Porches--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Golf courses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles) Rancho La Cienega O' Paso de la Tijera (Calif.) Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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